I read about sd_notify (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_notify.html) and was wondering if it's possible to somehow find out if a daemon sends some notifications. In particular, I ...

I have an OSX system that I'd love to have some daemons set up on that will automate the updating of all of my console utilities. How would I go about creating and running such daemons? I'd also like ...

I am writing my first linux daemon and I am wondering where to log its stdout and stderr. It is going to work for all users. I guess I could do it wherever I wanted, I just wonder if there are some ...

I'm using mailsend (on a Mac) to send mail from the command line. I'd like to set this up such that I can execute a send command, but if my system is disconnected from the internet, that command is ...

Trying to learn docker here but I am a bit confused on what the difference is between docker.io and docker. Is docker.io the daemon server and docker the client? Why does the daemon need to run all ...

If I reinstall MySQL, without removing the actual MySQL installation, would it rewrite all files without deleting my databases?
My problem is my mysqld is broken, due to the fact that I accidentally ...

I want to monitor a logfile (syslog) on my linux debian box. So if there is a new entry with a secific string, i want to execute a script.
The strings are "alarm start" and "alarm end"
So it should ...

I have installed ushareand want to start is with booting. sudo service ushare startworks, and there is a link to start ushare in /etc/rc2.d (and also rc3, rc4, rc5) and there are stop links in other ...

I believe to decrease the launch time of browsers after boot/starting the X servers increasing the priority unbound processes would help.
I believe editing the unbound.service file would do this but ...

I have an application that spits out the time when it is requested from a client. I don't have permissions to use port 13, so I put it on a really high-numbered port. Now I can't kill that port, and I ...

I am unable to connect to my OpenVPN server running on latest ArchLinux version, the port seems open if I scan from the outside, so im pretty sure its correctly forwarded, however the client displays ...

I want to run the bandwidth throttler trickled automatically on boot up. (Raspbian OS on the Raspberry Pi). What methods are there, and which one(s) are standard practice? The options I've found are ...

Is there a tool which can control daemons/services in a cross-platform manner?
In programming there are different build tools that allow you to build software from source on different platforms; the ...

Actually I'm not so sure whether i should use Shell Scripts, or if there some ways already. But whatever approach we use, i would like to keep a Service running all the time.
Let's say iptables as an ...

I have a computer at home with SSH installed which I would like to be able to control remotely. However, I am not able to allow SSH port forwarding through my router, so the only way to get in would ...

The title is the question.
Originally this Ubuntu machine was meant to be headless, but I installed LXDE. Usually Transmission is run by the default GTK+ GUI. Instead of making sure the daemon runs ...

I'm running FreeBSD in a very small VM with about 1.5G of space. I'd like to disable syslogd to save disk space, but there is no entry for it in /etc/rc.conf. service -e shows that syslogd is indeed ...

I'm trying to follow this guide to run a deluge daemon on a headless server. The client part seems to be working, but the server part doesn't seem to work at all.
Deluge-console is supposed to allow ...

I am trying to make a simple daemon for continuously deleting files from purple/icons ( the pidgin dir ). However, remove() and unlink() are not deleting files. Here is my code, please, tell me where ...

I'm using Upstart on Ubuntu 12.04 to control and monitor a service defined by me, where the service is a user process running as a daemon.
I need to monitor it so, when it fails/crashes it respawns, ...

I have done a linux service using the article on this link
http://shahmirj.com/blog/the-initd-script
After that I copied the files into the init.d directory
cp -f "myserviced" "/usr/sbin/myserviced"
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